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Article: Holy water may not be such a blessing.
- Article from:
- Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2007
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A Leeds nurse has warned holy water could give sick patients serious infections.
Gillian Hodgson, lead nurse in infection control at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, warned that patients could be harmed by micro-organisms in holy water.
She was speaking at a fringe meeting of the Royal College of Nursing conference in Harrogate about the implications of religious practice on infection control.
Ms Hodgson, according to the Nursing Standard, said a child in a paediatric oncology unit had developed the bacterial infection, pseudomonas, after his lips were wiped with holy water.
The bacterium mainly affects ill people and can lead to ...